---
title: "Watch the Porsche 718 Cayman S Race a Swarm of Drones"
description: "It’s wheels versus wings in a battle for high-speed superiority."
date: "2016-11-23"
modified: "2016-11-23"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/6168/watch-the-porsche-718-cayman-s-race-a-swarm-of-drones"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "718"
  - "718 Cayman"
  - "Cayman"
  - "Coupe"
  - "Drones"
  - "england"
  - "luxury"
  - "porsche"
  - "sports car"
---

# Watch the Porsche 718 Cayman S Race a Swarm of Drones

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It seems like a scene from the next *Terminator* movie: A bright blue [Porsche, blasting along the piers and through the warehouses of a waterfront complex, with a pack of buzzing drones](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6dwnPid490&t=0s>) in hot pursuit. Luckily for all of us squishy organics, however, these drones aren’t being controlled by some tyrannical cybernetic mind out to destroy humanity, but by a league of some of the world’s top-tier human racing drone pilots.

On the other hand, while an actual Terminator movie would probably feature the appropriately Germanic Arnold Schwarzenegger behind the wheel, the Porsche 718 Cayman S is occupied by stunt driver Mauro Carlo and [a man known as Ali-A](<https://www.youtube.com/user/Matroix/featured>), who, sadly, is not a Sacha Baron Cohen character, but a YouTube celebrity known for recording himself playing video games. ([Much like the gang from *South Park*](<https://www.hulu.com/watch/722074>), we at *The Drive* have no idea why that is a thing, but that’s neither here nor there.)

The chase might not be quite on the same level as [one of James Cameron’s cinematic spectacles](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgphD_ZO_jI>), but it’s damned impressive all the same. Porsche outfitted the Cayman with proximity smoke bombs, designed to let off a cloud of colored vapor whenever a drone comes close enough to count coup against the 718. Alia-A and Carlo’s task: to evade the drones long enough to hit three checkpoints across the Medway Port complex in Sheerness, England, rip-roaring and powersliding all the while.

So take a few minutes and check it out. Hey, it’s Thanksgiving weekend; what else are you going to do, talk to your family?

https://youtube.com/embed/W6dwnPid490

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**And now, today's episode of *Drive Wire*:**

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/willsabelcourtney>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)